To: VanDeKoik
"The only people using that are lazy businesses, people using easily obtained pirated copies, and folks that should know better but think they are really proving a point by continued use. The It aint broke brigade." Wrong. There are many businesses who have highly expensive hardware (gas chromatographs, mass spectrometers, CNC mills, and many other categories)that cost hundreds of thousands (or millions) of dollars for which the computer serves as the control box. Quite often, the control SOFTWARE for such expensive equipment has not been re-written to run under later OS's, and likely never will be. You can actually buy new hardware specifically designed to run older OS's, so that the expensive legacy hardware can be kept operational.
59 posted on
04/08/2014 1:00:56 PM PDT by
Wonder Warthog
(Newly fledged NRA Life Member (after many years as an "annual renewal" sort))
To: All
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61 posted on
04/08/2014 1:04:20 PM PDT by
McGruff
(Want to hurt Mozilla? Don't use Firefox's search bar. That is their money maker.)
To: Wonder Warthog
Or you could run the old OS on a VM on the new hardware and get the best of both worlds.
62 posted on
04/08/2014 1:04:21 PM PDT by
discostu
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